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{{short description|'''Glasgow Jewish education charity, registered in 1942 as the Glasgow Rabbinical College & Yeshivah, that makes education grants and runs the community mikveh in Giffnock (OSCR SC008431)'''}}
{{Infobox organization
| name            = Glasgow Rabbinical College and Mikveh
| type            = Unincorporated association
| founded         = {{Start date|1942|01|26}}
| registration_id = SC008431 ([[Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator]])
| status          = Active
| headquarters    = Penthouse, Woodend, Whitecraigs, Glasgow, G46 7JN
| location        = Giffnock, East Renfrewshire
| area_served     = Glasgow and the surrounding area
| services        = Jewish education grants; the Glasgow Mikveh (ritual bath)
| registration    = Scotland (OSCR)
| key_people      = [[Malcolm Joseph Livingstone|Malcolm Livingstone]] (Chair); [[Neil Livingstone]]; [[Michael Simpson]]
}}
'''Glasgow Rabbinical College and Mikveh''' is a small Scottish charity that makes Jewish education grants and runs the Glasgow Mikveh (ritual bath) in the [[Giffnock Newton Mearns Synagogue]] building. It was registered on 26 January 1942 as the Glasgow Rabbinical College & Yeshivah and took its present name on 26 October 2017.<ref name="OSCR_GRC">Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator, [https://www.oscr.org.uk/about-charities/search-the-register/charity-details?number=SC008431 Glasgow Rabbinical College and Mikveh (SC008431)] ''Scottish Charity Register'', accessed 20 October 2026.</ref><ref name="GRC2025">Glasgow Rabbinical College and Mikveh, [https://oscr-docs.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/glas-rabb-mikveh-accs-2025-signed-0147GKMYMAZCYIU4PWJZD2CWQ5RCGSCZD4.pdf Financial Statements for the year ended 31 December 2025] (scanned; read by OCR), via ''Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator'', accessed 20 October 2026.</ref> In 2025 it received £29,984 in appeals and donations and paid £31,005 in grants.<ref name="GRC2025" /> The only funder named in published accounts is the [[Glasgow Jewish Community Trust]], which gave it £22,000 in 2025. The chair, [[Malcolm Joseph Livingstone|Malcolm Livingstone]], is also a trustee of that trust.<ref name="GJCT2025">Glasgow Jewish Community Trust, [https://oscr-docs.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/gjct-signed-2025-accounts-0147GKMYOZLANGQOY73VFY6OLJT44DJC4E.pdf Report of the Trustees and Financial Statements for the year ended 31 December 2025], note 5, via ''Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator'', accessed 20 October 2026.</ref><ref name="OSCR_GJCT">Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator, [https://www.oscr.org.uk/about-charities/search-the-register/charity-details?number=SC013684 Glasgow Jewish Community Trust (SC013684)] ''Scottish Charity Register'', accessed 20 October 2026.</ref>

== Registration and objects ==
The OSCR register describes the charity as an unincorporated association with a constitutional form date of 26 January 1942. Its main operating location is East Renfrewshire, and it has no staff or volunteers. Its object is "to promote Jewish Education at all levels and by all proper methods and to engage in such activities as will lead to the accomplishment of this end in Glasgow and the surrounding area". It describes its work as: "Provides educational study grants. Provide a Mikveh (ritual bath house) for the Community use".<ref name="OSCR_GRC" /> The register notes the previous name, "Glasgow Rabbinical College & Yeshivah from 26/01/1942 to 26/10/2017".<ref name="OSCR_GRC" />

The registered address is "Penthouse, Woodend, Whitecraigs, Glasgow, G46 7JN", which OSCR records as a charity trustee's address.<ref name="OSCR_GRC" /> The 2025 accounts give the charity's address as Giffnock Newton Mearns Synagogue, 222 Fenwick Road, Giffnock, Glasgow G46 6UE. They list its bankers as [[Clydesdale Bank]], St Vincent Place, Glasgow, and its solicitors as [[Mitchells Roberton]], 36 Hanover Street, Glasgow.<ref name="GRC2025" />

== Activities ==
The 2025 trustees' report gives the objects as promoting Jewish education "including Education Grants" and managing "the Glasgow Mikveh (Ritual bath house) situated in the premises of the Giffnock Newton Mearns Synagogue". It says that "an increase in donations enabled the Trustees to increase the level of educational grants in 2025". The mikveh was refurbished in 2023, and its running costs in 2025 "were again at a low level".<ref name="GRC2025" /> The accounts do not name grant recipients.

In 2012 the charity transferred £150,000 to the [[Glasgow Jewish Community Trust]], which "absorbed [it] into the Education Fund" to be applied in line with that fund's objects.<ref name="GJCT2025" />

== Finances ==
{| class="wikitable"
|+ Annual returns to OSCR<ref name="OSCR_GRC" />
! Year ending !! Income (£) !! Expenditure (£) !! Annual return received
|-
| 31 December 2021 || 10,387 || 8,451 || 26 July 2022
|-
| 31 December 2022 || 19,394 || 20,894 || 7 February 2023
|-
| 31 December 2023 || 46,544 || 49,866 || 7 March 2024
|-
| 31 December 2024 || 19,394 || 20,894 || 6 April 2025
|-
| 31 December 2025 || 29,984 || 31,102 || 28 April 2026
|}
<!-- check: the OSCR figures for 2024 (£19,394 / £20,894) are identical to those for 2022; the 2025 accounts give 2024 income of £31,714 and expenditure of £27,761.40 -->

{| class="wikitable"
|+ Statement of financial activities, 2025 accounts<ref name="GRC2025" />
! Item !! 2024 (£) !! 2025 (£)
|-
| Appeals and donations || 31,714.00 || 29,984.00
|-
| Grants paid || 25,050.00 || 31,005.00
|-
| Mikveh || 2,500.00 || –
|-
| Expenses || 211.40 || 97.20
|-
| Total expenditure || 27,761.40 || 31,102.20
|-
| Funds carried forward || 11,922.32 || 10,804.12
|}
The printed columns are headed "2024" and "25". The OCR text of the statement shows a 2024 surplus of "£3922.60" and opening funds of "£7,969.72", while the funds note gives £3,952.60 and £7,069.72.<ref name="GRC2025" /> <!-- check: the printed donations figure falls from £31,714 to £29,984, although the report speaks of "an increase in donations" --> All funds were held as cash at the bank. The accounts were independently examined by [[Brian Links]] of Glasgow G20, and the balance sheet was signed by "Malcolm J Livingstone (Chairman)" ([[Malcolm Joseph Livingstone|Malcolm Livingstone]]).<ref name="GRC2025" /> The trustees "do not receive any remuneration or expenses", and the report states that "there were no related party transactions in the year".<ref name="GRC2025" />

=== Grants from the Glasgow Jewish Community Trust ===
{| class="wikitable"
|+ Grants from the [[Glasgow Jewish Community Trust]] (£)<ref name="GJCT2024">Glasgow Jewish Community Trust, [https://oscr-docs.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/gjct-script-signed-2024-accounts-1-redacted-ebee155e-f899-f011-b41b-7ced8d6b6449.pdf Report of the Trustees and Financial Statements for the year ended 31 December 2024] (redacted copy), note 5, via ''Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator'', accessed 20 October 2026.</ref><ref name="GJCT2025" />
! Year !! Education !! Mikveh !! Total
|-
| 2023 || 12,000 || 20,000 || 32,000
|-
| 2024 || 18,000 || – || 18,000
|-
| 2025 || colspan="2" | 22,000 (not split) || 22,000
|}
The £20,000 mikveh grant from the trust in 2023 coincides with the 2023 refurbishment of the mikveh.<ref name="GJCT2024" /><ref name="GRC2025" />

== Trustees ==
{| class="wikitable"
|+ Trustees, 2025 accounts and OSCR register (October 2026)<ref name="GRC2025" /><ref name="OSCR_GRC" />
! Name !! Role !! Other trusteeships (OSCR)
|-
| [[Malcolm Joseph Livingstone|Malcolm Livingstone]] || Chairperson || [[Glasgow Jewish Community Trust]]<ref name="OSCR_GJCT" />
|-
| [[Neil Livingstone]] || Trustee || 
|-
| [[Michael Simpson]] || Trustee || 
|}
New trustees are "nominated and seconded by existing trustees".<ref name="GRC2025" /> <!-- check: the link assumes that "Malcolm J Livingstone (Chairman)" in the accounts is the Malcolm Joseph Livingstone of the existing Powerbase page; the register gives only "Malcolm Livingstone". [[Michael Simpson]] is a common name; no page exists yet -->

== Glasgow network ==
* [[Glasgow Jewish Community Trust]]: its main identified funder (£22,000 in 2025), and its chair is a trustee of the trust.<ref name="GJCT2025" /><ref name="OSCR_GJCT" />
* [[Giffnock Newton Mearns Synagogue]]: houses the Glasgow Mikveh, and its address, 222 Fenwick Road, is the address given in the accounts.<ref name="GRC2025" /> [[Jewish Student Chaplaincy Scotland]] uses "Flat 1, 222 Fenwick Road" as its registered address.<ref name="OSCR_JSCS">Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator, [https://www.oscr.org.uk/about-charities/search-the-register/charity-details?number=SC005999 Jewish Student Chaplaincy Scotland (SC005999)] ''Scottish Charity Register'', accessed 20 October 2026.</ref>

== Israel and Zionist links ==
No Israel-related grants, events or trustee roles appear in the 2025 accounts or the OSCR register entry.<ref name="GRC2025" /><ref name="OSCR_GRC" />

== See also ==
* [[Glasgow Jewish Community Trust]]
* [[Giffnock Newton Mearns Synagogue]]
* [[Jewish Student Chaplaincy Scotland]]

== Notes ==
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[[Category:Charities in Scotland]]
[[Category:Jewish charities in Scotland]]
[[Category:Orthodox Jewish charities]] <!-- check: based on the mikveh and its location in an Orthodox synagogue; confirm -->